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The Department for Education (DfE) publishes what each school in England spends and receives each year, through its Financial Benchmarking and Insights Tool (FBIT). Connect it, and Neo reads each school’s ICT spending from those returns by the school’s URN, line by line and with IT support included, with its pupils and the year.

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What Neo can do with DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights

  • Run a scheduled agent each year that reads the ICT spending of each school client and writes it to the client’s record in your PSA, such as custom fields on a Halo client
  • Compare a school’s IT spending and pupils with its support contract value
  • Read a school’s spending for a technician, on a ticket or in a chat
See DfE Financial Benchmarking API for the permission group.

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What DfE publishes

Academies report no IT support line to DfE, so Neo cannot give an IT support figure for an academy. DfE publishes a new CFR year in late summer and a new AAR year early in the next calendar year, and sometimes re-issues a published year with corrections. FBIT has no API for other services, so Neo reads the files DfE publishes on FBIT’s data sources page, under the Open Government Licence. The returns list every school in England, not your clients, so there is no company mapping to set up. Store each school’s URN on its client in your PSA, or name it in the agent’s instructions.

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Next steps

Connect DfE Financial Benchmarking and Insights

Switch it on in Neo. DfE’s returns are open data and need no key.